Anime like Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002

Aoashi

Also known as Aoashi.

Studio: Production I.G , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , NHK Enterprises , BANDAI SPIRITS , Marvelous , Production I.G
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Ashito Aoi is a young, aspiring soccer player from a backwater town in Japan. His hopes of getting into a high school with a good soccer club are dashed when he causes an incident during a critical match for his team, which results in their loss and elimination from the tournament. Nevertheless, he catches the eye of someone important who happened to be visiting from Tokyo. How will things turn out for Ashito?



Tags: Football , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , School , Bullying , Time Skip

Ganbare! Kickers

Also known as Fight! Kickers.

Studio: Studio Pierrot
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

The Kickers are first and foremost a football team. Actually, they're only playing for their school, but haven't exactly covered themselves with glory. When the new player, Gregor (Daichi Kakeru) arrives at the school, they just had faced a resounding defeat again. However, thanks to Gregor, things are going to change. Highly motivated, they'll try to get rid of their "always-loser-team" image. Their strongest enemy are the Devils, who Gregor provokes right from the start. However, it's not all about football. When the captain, Mario (Hongou Masaru), is not pursued by his female fans, the Kickers often hang around and do stuff together.



Tags: Football , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast

DAYS

Also known as DAYS.

Studio: MAPPA , Pony Canyon
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

The anime centers on two boys who were never meant to meet: Tsukushi Tsukamoto, who has no special skills but secretly hides a passionate heart, and Jin Kazama, an isolated soccer genius. On a stormy night, the two meet, and that meeting creates a whirlwind in the world of high school soccer.



Tags: Football , Shounen , School Club , School , Primarily Male Cast , Coming of Age , Bullying

Ginga e Kickoff!!

Studio: NHK , NAS , NHK Enterprises , TYO Animations
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

The story follows a boy who was in a soccer team, but it was disbanded due to not enough players. However, after the boy meets a female professional soccer player, he aims to bring his soccer team back.



Tags: Football , Male Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Ensemble Cast , School

Whistle!

Studio: Studio Comet , Studio Jack
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Kazamatsuri Shou's dream has always been to become a professional soccer player, but he has one problem: he's not very good at the game. He was accepted to the prestigious Musashi no Mori Junior High, known for its top rate soccer team, but he was never able to rise beyond the rank of third stringer. After transferring to Sakura Jousui Junior High, he can finally play soccer. And, with the support of his new friends and teammates, his strong determination, and lots of hard work, his soccer skills are developing rapidly and setting Shou well on his way to achieving his dream.



Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Football , School , Shounen , Bullying , Foreign , CGI , Educational

GIANT KILLING

Also known as Giant Killing.

Studio: Studio DEEN , NHK
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

East Tokyo United, ETU, has been struggling in Japan's top football league for a few years. It has taken everything they have just to avoid relegation. To make matters even worse, the fans are starting to abandon the team.

In an effort to improve their performance, ETU has hired a new coach, the slightly eccentric Tatsumi Takeshi. Tatsumi, who was considered a great football player when he was younger, abandoned the team years before but has proven himself as the manager of one of England's lower division amateur teams. The task won't be easy, the teams East Tokyo United is pitted against have bigger budgets and better players. However, Tatsumi is an expert at Giant Killing.

Tags: Football , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Work , Primarily Male Cast , Achronological Order

Fantasista Stella

Studio: Xebec , Shogakukan
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Teppei and teammate Keisuke Honda aim for the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil.

Tags: Shounen , Football , Male Protagonist

Shippuu! Iron Leaguer

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Mecha , Sci-Fi , Sports

In the future, mankind has developed a multi-sport tournament known as Iron League, using artificially intelligent robots as the players instead of humans. The competition is very popular. However, its main support comes from the Dark Organization, a group that produces cheating Iron Leaguers that use dirty and violent tactics in games as a sure ticket for fame and popularity. While the sports community has been turned into a dangerous and (figuratively) bloody contest, Silver Castle, the team with the lowest winning ratio, tries to preserve true sportsmanship by playing sports by their original rules without any cheating or violence. The team's fate as well as the fate of the Iron League itself is changed when two Iron Leaguers - Mach Windy, Dark Prince FC's former ace striker and Magnum Ace, a mysterious but skillful baseball-playing Leaguer - join Silver Castle, and gradually lead the team back to its forgotten glory. It's not all fun and games, however; as the story goes on, it is revealed that the Iron League is actually a front for something far more sinister...



Tags: Baseball , Football , Robots , Memory Manipulation , Ensemble Cast , American Football , Basketball , Ice Skating , Super Robot , Artificial Intelligence